Steve Nidetz

When ChicagoLand Television News (CLTV) began its cable venture about a year and a half ago, the strategy was simple: Hire young and talented reporters-cheap-nurture them and watch them grow....

David Kenin knows impossible missions. After all, while working at WFLD-Ch. 32 from 1975 to 1978, the new CBS Sports president produced Blackhawks hockey telecasts. "They were more successful than...

F or a city that prides itself in promoting its theater community, the International Theatre Festival went by with a hardly a peep on Chicago's TV newscasts. Thursday night, in...

When Pat Summerall did his last telecast for CBS Sports, there was much pomp and circumstance. Of course, it was the Masters golf tournament, and Summerall had grown to near-legendary...

W FLD-Ch. 32 found another hole to fill in its daily lineup Wednesday, after Twentieth Television pulled the plug on "The Bertice Berry Show." With the cancellation of the nationally...

As part of the fallout from last week's NBC deal for the U.S. Open golf tournament, the network appears on the verge of cutting its 25-year ties with the Wimbledon...

Operation Overlord seemed a simple task compared to finding out which TV station was going to show to 20th Century Fox's "The Longest Day" in association with the 50th anniversary...

As soon as Mary Pierce finished her upset victory Thursday over Steffi Graf in the women's singles semifinals of the French Open, Pierce went over to the NBC broadcast booth...

In the latest surprise, NBC Sports managed to wrestle three major golf championships away from ABC. The network, in conjunction with the U.S. Golf Association, announced Wednesday it had acquired...

WBEZ-FM (91.5) officials plan to keep the same format for "Midday," but there may be other changes on the one-hour international news program as the station tries to recover from...